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arbustos postrados

English translation: prostrated bushes(shrubs) / Low-growing shrubs

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Spanish term or phrase:arbustos postrados
English translation:prostrated bushes(shrubs) / Low-growing shrubs
Entered by: Claudia Luque Bedregal

02:08 Aug 23, 2007
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Science - Environment & Ecology / descripción de flora
Spanish term or phrase: arbustos postrados
Esta clasificación muestra que la forma de vida vegetal de la zona es de baja estatura, no supera los 2-2.5m de altura, arbustos postrados, hierbas perennes con yemas de renuevos y muy pocas especies anuales.

Muchas gracias!
Claudia Luque Bedregal
Italy
Local time: 16:50
prostrated bushes(shrubs)
Explanation:
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Juan Arturo Carbajal Manjarrez
Mexico
Local time: 07:50
Grading comment
Gracias Juan! Thanks also to Jack who gave a good suggestion and link :)
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +3prostrated bushes(shrubs)
Juan Arturo Carbajal Manjarrez
5bent-over bushes
Bubo Coroman (X)
5 -1wilted/drooping shrubbery
trans4u
4shrubs with a low-growing habit
Noni Gilbert Riley


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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
prostrated bushes(shrubs)


Explanation:
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Juan Arturo Carbajal Manjarrez
Mexico
Local time: 07:50
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Gracias Juan! Thanks also to Jack who gave a good suggestion and link :)

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  jack_speak: prostrated shrubs. Low-growing shrubs: "Low-growing plants for New Mexico. Question:. I want to plant some low growing evergreens and some type of flowering ground cover..."http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q="low growing plants"
6 mins
  -> Thank you!
agree  JPMedicalTrans
3 hrs
  -> Thank you!
agree  Catalina Connon: prostrate
23 hrs
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15 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): -1
wilted/drooping shrubbery


Explanation:
wilted-drooping

drooping-caido, colgante

shrubbery ['ʃrʌbərɪ] nombre arbustos, matas

http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=dro...

trans4u
Local time: 08:50
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  jack_speak: wilted and drooping mean they are unhealthy/dying.
51 mins
  -> I looked up "postrado" in word reference and it means laying down, weakness. Then, the term read "muy pocas especies anuales" and so I based my answer on that.Well, when I'm wrong, I'm worng.
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
bent-over bushes


Explanation:
te adjunto enlace a una página donde ocurre el término "bent-over bushes". Un abrazo :-)


    Reference: http://www.torresdelpaine.cl/ingles/secciones/01/c/florafaun...
Bubo Coroman (X)
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 145
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
shrubs with a low-growing habit


Explanation:
"Particularly useful are those with a prostrate or low-growing habit" www.carryongardening.org.uk/page01_2_3.asp

Low growing, and low-growing habit are the expression I know.

Noni Gilbert Riley
Spain
Local time: 16:50
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 42
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